Sentences with phrase «calling for public financing»

A bill calling for public financing of general assembly campaigns was introduced in February.

The organization Fair Elections for NY, which is calling for public financing of campaigns, has for weeks now been trying to raise awareness about the current system by revealing the donations that state lawmakers have recieved from corporations and interest groups.

The latest Newsday op - ed to call for public financing in New York state, by Make the Road New York member and community organizer Maria Magdalena Flores, explains why public financing is needed to combat apathy among working - class and minority voters.

She called for public financing of elections and noted Clarke supported Brooklyn Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, Brooklyn Assemblywoman Diana Richardson and Ampry - Samuel — younger black women with diverse staff.

State of the State: Gov. Cuomo Once Again Calls for Public Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public financing.

Arizona: plan calls for public financing of Superior Court races in counties not using merit selection system, however bill would eliminate public financing for all other races

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There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, half of the McCain - Feingold sponsorship duo, calls in a DN OpEd for Cuomo to «lead the charge» against Citizens United by enacting a state - based public campaign finance system.

It also urges viewers to call Latimer, who once even supported public financing for local elections, to tell him forcing taxpayers to «foot the bill» for politicians» aspirations is a «bad idea.»

With all the talk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo potentially pushing to reunify the IDC and so - called «regular» Democrats as payback for the Republicans» refusal to support a statewide public campaign finance system, I thought it would be worth checking it with the lone Democrat who is actually conferencing with the GOP: Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder.

Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

The Freedom Party frequently attacks ORF as left - wing propaganda machine and has called for an end to the licence - fee model of financing public broadcasting.

In a memorandum being circulated this morning, good - government advocates call Speaker Sheldon Silver's measure to create a public financing system for political campaigns «a good first step forward» but then pick apart some of the wider loopholes in the legislation.

While the governor has announced plans in support of public financing and empowering district attorneys during these situations, others are calling for term limits and according to a recent Siena poll, 82 percent of registered New York voters agree.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?»

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

The mayor has consistently called for campaign finance reform, calling the city's public matching system a gold standard that the state should follow.

Members of the fair elections coalition were joined by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Tuesday to again call for public campaign financing.

But the Lib Dems also called for the abolition of the CTF in their 2005 manifesto, when public finances were not under anything like the present strain.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in Scotland has renewed its call for the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill to improve public and parliamentary scrutiny of the devolved taxes.

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

«We must end the ability of so - called not - for - profit advocacy organizations to elude regulation and to mock New York City's public finance system, by allowing campaigns access to virtually unlimited money from special interests,» he said.

Several unions that are pushing for public financing of campaigns call the contributions «legal bribery.»

If the past debate on public campaign financing is any guide, the Republicans will likely punch back at Democrats» calls for reform by saying the party wants to create a class of professional politicians.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

In response to the groups» call, a spokesman for Cuomo, did not address the question of an open leaders meeting, saying instead ethics and campaign finance reform «will be discussed» but did not say whether that will in public or in private.

The governor also called the commission a «phenomenal success» for drawing interest to unseemly behavior and prompting legal changes earlier this year, including tougher enforcement at the State Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

In return, Mr. Schneiderman's plan calls for altering the state constitution to extend terms from two years to four, establishing public financing of campaigns reminiscent of New York City's matching funds system, and increasing politicians» salaries to as much as $ 174,000 a year.

endorses Assemblywoman Grace Meng, who is vying to take Ackerman's spot once he retires, while former Public Advocate Mark Green stands with Assemblyman Rory Lancman to endorse him and call for campaign finance reform.

Fair elections supporters held a conference call this week to push for New York State campaign finance reform and public funding of elections.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer called on former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to cap his spending in the race for city comptroller at $ 4,018,000 as required by the city's public financing system.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will appear on a town - hall telephone call Tuesday evening held by advocates backing public financing for political campaigns.

Easton today called the committee «nothing but a hit squad for millionaires and the largest landlords in New York City who want to take money out of the public schools to finance a tax cut for themselves.»

«The Governor says people who support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»

In response to the groups» call, a spokesman for Governor Cuomo did not address the question of an open leaders» meeting, saying instead ethics and campaign finance reform «will be discussed» but did not say whether that will in public or in private.

«What shouldn't be lost in this web of public corruption is that the same candidate plastering Western New York with commercials calling for an end to corruption has been financed by the same men who are now facing charges in one of Western New York's largest public corruption schemes,» Small's campaign manager Matt Tighe said in The Buffalo News.

Former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who signed Connecticut's landmark campaign finance reforms into law, called Thursday for lawmakers to block plans by legislative Democrats from cutting the public financing system.

Senate President Pro Tem Marty Looney, shown here in his office, and other Democrats are now calling for fully restoring $ 11.7 million in public financing under the campaign reform law.

[With this oversimplified phrase, Clinton is effectively calling for court - mandated public financing, which is extremely unlikely.

The goo - goos are again calling for widespread reforms, including creation of a voluntary system of public campaign financing, lowering of the contribution limits and full disclosure of independent expenditures.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins spent the night reaching out to New York's liberals, calling for full employment programs, higher wages, public campaign financing, proportional representation in the State Legislature and a ban on fracking ban.

[Hawkins] said Cuomo should «be calling for full public campaign financings and an amendment to the U.S. constitution to permit effective public regulation of election financing.»

In return, the proposal calls for altering the state constitution to extend terms from two years to four, establishing public financing of campaigns reminiscent of New York City's matching funds system and increasing politician's salaries to as much as $ 174,000 a year.

Funiciello has called for full public financing of elections at all levels of government, and for enacting strict transparency laws that force campaign committees and PACs to disclose all of their donors.

The man who once declared that «I am the government» all but groveled for the WFP's nod, publicly endorsing a slew of so - called progressive policy initiatives — from public campaign financing to a minimum wage hike — that he had previously declined to put any political muscle behind.

The Governor should be calling call for full public campaign financing and an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit effective public regulation of election financing.

Rep. Whit Betts, R - 78th District and the delegation's senior member, said he'd call for eliminating the state income tax on Social Security, and contended that doing away with public campaign financing would offset most or all of the lost revenue.

First and foremost, it means public financing of elections, which Teddy Roosevelt called for long ago.